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# employee

«employee» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who works for a company or another person and is…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an employee, employees)

### meaning for a pupil

An employee is a person who works for a company or another person and is paid for it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In maths problems employees are paid wages per hour or per week, work shifts, and are counted in companies. In everyday life: shop employees, employees of the month. Phrases: employee of the month, full-time employee, part-time employee.

### examples

- The shop has 12 employees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/#x1)
- She is an employee at the bank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/#x2)
- Employees must wash their hands before cooking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/#x3)
- He was named employee of the month. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/#x4)
- Each employee earns 15 dollars an hour. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/#x5)
- The company hired 3 new employees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/#x6)
- Only employees may enter this room. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/#x7)
- If 8 employees each work 5 hours, they work 40 hours in total. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/#x8)

### note

Starts with a vowel: "an employee". Spelling: double e at the end. Pair: employer (the boss or company who pays) vs employee (the worker who is paid). Verb: employ. Trap: do not mix up employer and employee.

### In the corpora

- ["Associate" often means an ordinary, low-paid employee, especially in US shops.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/22-jobs-shops-and-estate-agents/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «employee» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/employee/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.